Model comparison

GPT-5.5 vs Mistral Nemo

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 75× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #9 Confirmed

Mistral Nemo Mistral AI

26.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.5 scores higher in 5 categories and Mistral Nemo in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.5 leads 81.7 to 25.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 94% for GPT-5.5 and 29.9% for Mistral Nemo.
  • Mistral Nemo is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $30 for GPT-5.5.
  • GPT-5.5 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Mistral Nemo has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.5 and Mistral Nemo specifications
GPT-5.5Mistral Nemo
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index63.426.4
Released2026-04-232024-07-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output128K128K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$30$0.15
Results tracked7110

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 58.2 (#17), Mistral Nemo: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Mistral Nemo
SWE-bench Verified80.6%—
DeepSWE67%—
FrontierCode43%—
LMArena WebDev1513—
SciCode56.1%—
GSO40.2%—
WeirdML84.9%—
LMArena Coding1494—
MirrorCode10%—
ALE-Bench1,943—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6), Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Mistral Nemo
Terminal-Bench84.7%—
APEX-Agents55.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—27.6%
OSWorld 2.013%—
Remote Labor Index6.3%—
τ²-bench Banking44.6%—
DeepResearch Bench54%—
PostTrainBench27.2%—
BALROG—17.6%
ExploitBench47.4%—
GBAEval53.2%—
GDP.pdf26%—
LMArena Search1242—
Vending-Bench 27,524—

Reasoning GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#11), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Mistral Nemo
DTBench96%48.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index159.1118.68
ARC-AGI-285%—
SimpleBench69%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)96.2%—
ARC-AGI-195%—
CritPt27.1%—
Chess Puzzles54%—
EBR-Bench34.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1489—
Mystery Game Puzzles56%—
LMCA54.3%—
Surface Evolver Bench88.1%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
ForecastBench60.6—
PIQA—83.5%

Math GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 81.7 (#11), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)

Knowledge GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#17), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Mistral Nemo
GPQA Diamond94%29.9%
SimpleQA Verified63%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
LMArena Expert1508—
BoolQ—82.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 46.9 (#12), Mistral Nemo: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Mistral Nemo
LMArena Vision1297—
Blueprint-Bench 236.2%—
Furniture Assembly44.2%—
LMArena Document1486—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 56.4 (#20), Mistral Nemo: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Mistral Nemo
LMArena Non-English1467—
LMArena Chinese1533—
LMArena French1486—
LMArena German1480—
LMArena Japanese1498—
LMArena Korean1460—
LMArena Russian1473—
LMArena Spanish1468—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 77.5 (#18), Mistral Nemo: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Mistral Nemo
LMArena Instruction Following1479—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12), Mistral Nemo: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Mistral Nemo
CL-bench Life22.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1484—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#13), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Mistral Nemo
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1844881
LMArena Text1472—
LMArena Creative Writing1455—
EQ-Bench 41315—
LMArena Multi-Turn1476—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.5 better than Mistral Nemo?

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 75× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.5 or Mistral Nemo?

Mistral Nemo is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; GPT-5.5 lists at $5 and $30.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.5 does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 and Mistral Nemo share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.5 has 71 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.

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